The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-28

the sovereign party of the North. They enacted
into crime the mere attempt of federal power TO
enforce its dserees within their donations. and
because. after decades of endurance as
patient as II was delusive. the sovereign party
OF the south declined to accept their revolu-
tonary will in permanent place of the Constitu-
tioE. the contract breaking sovereigns of the
North with numbers overwhelming and mate
rial nnbounded, made aggressive upon them
to force them to accept it. The world has been
told that the people of the South made the war
TO perpetuate African slavery. This is false
They did not create the institution nor do they
now wish to restore it. The principle for which
we fought, the only principle OF government ex-
p4nslve enough to meet the requirements of ad-
vancing civilization. made of late by Giadstons's
eioquence so familiar to European thought was
American born. Red with the blood of conted-
crate heroes moist with the tears of confederate
widows and Orphans. eastward shall it continue
to roll. carrying with it the blessed light OF
Christian civilization all round the globe, and so
surely as it moves it shall bring the
day of triumph. In that tri.
umphal procession Abraham Lincoln shall
not move as the rightful President but Jefer-
son Davis, the so-calied traitor. the leader OF
so-caled lost cause. We as coufederates can echo
from our hearts the patriotic of Webster the
great, Thanks be to God that /, too. am an
American cltizeu,' but if the so-caled new South
be a base surrender of the old, false confess
sion. meanly false. of shame in our past, shame
in our sires, shame in our dead, which none but
the stiles: fool can honestly feel, then with all
of the power given to us by the God of truth.
we cry, 'Avaunt fase South, avaunt rotten
trunk upon q cursed root. thy fruit must turn TO
ashes.'"
The Stars and Stripes Trampied in the Dirt.
f. d. M, in cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
In the crowd one man attracted especial at
tention. He had dressed himself in the identi
cal old buttsrnut uniform he came back from
the war in. He had on his canteer and haver-
sack and all that was left Of his accoutrement
On his breast were pinned small confederate
flags, jeff Davis badges and half dozen
federate bank-notes of various denominations.
tens. ffties hundreds He had these bank
notes pinned on his shoulders also. and stuck on
the side Of his old army cap in the shape of q
rosette or cockade In his hand he carried
iron pike, which be said was his first weapon.
The pike was fixed in a staff about eight feet
long. just below the iron head he had
nailed on two national flags and hung them with
a Georgia collard. This he said lineal
descendant of the collard patch that old Joe
Brown took away with him when he Estreated
from Miledgeville. When crowd of noisy
OF them stopped and ordered the bearer of
the pike to tear off those flags At first he
fused. but tho other kept angrily and profaney
insisting that he should tear those id flags off
this is the old Confeoeracy" Then the pike
carrier ripped off one of the flags and threw it
the ground while the crowd yelled.
just then a handsome gentlemen stepped for
ward and said: My friend, don't tear off that
other flag am a Southerner. and say your
design is the best have seen today. Keep the
flag the pike" The veterans insisted that
the fac should be torn off, and the pike bearer
said: mo, let the one flag stay; believe in
meeting them half way"
The other finally got him into a saloon near
by, and when they emerged again the pike was
clear of both flags and collard, and the other
man was Shaping him on the back affection
ately. 1t was evident in the beginning the
pike bearer had meant we'll enough in having
the national flag on his pike, but enthusiasm
and temptation led him astray. Afterwards he
had 4 fight, and he and his antagonist punched
each others heads and piastered themselves with
mud in front of the hotel The pike bearer
was William Evers, machinist. living in East
Macon.
1t had been arranged that the people should
pass n at the richt-hand carriage entrance, pass
by tae porch and salute Mr.. Davis and the 9TH
Ass. and so ou. the ieft-haud gate Tns might
have work ed very we'll but for the fact that Mr..
Davis came out upon the porch with his family
and gaZed down the street at the crowd. In an
instant he was recognized, and then occurred
confederate charge OF q most exciting nature.
Five Thousand veterans of the armies of north
ern Virginia and Tennessee charged over every
obstacle to get up and reach the hand OF their
old chief. The sight of this oncoming multitude
was brilliant one. They swept over the iron
fences. The police and guards disappeared like
straws in a storm. No obstacle interfered with
that tremendous rush. and all emblance of
der system was lost sight of at once. In a
moment the scenes being enacted before that
house and veranda were such as it is not possible
to describe.
Said New York correspondent: 'If / send
the exact statement OF this affair nay people
there will think I crazy" Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis. Mrs. HAYS. Miss Winnie Davis Senator
Colquitt and Governor and Mrs Gordon stood
in line behind the railing Of the veranda as that
solid mass Of ceiling thousands swept up the
green slope and dashed against the house like a
tidal wave. The impulse carried some of the
in front clear the railing. and men
were crushed and tramrled right before the eyes
OF Mr.. Davis and his family. The yelling was
ear-splittine.
The police tried to fight their way in to
tect Mr.. Davis, who was in danger OF being over
whelmed and crushed, but the crowd threw them
aside contemptuously, and one policeman who
raised his club was promptly Knocked over half
a dozen veterans striking at the same time.
man hung to post by the side of Davis and
yelled, Il fought for jeff Davis. and / am ready
to fight for him again. All the police in Georgia
shan't keep me away from him."
AT this tho yelling became more ear-piercing.
If possible, than ever. Men crawled over other
mems heads to reach the hand of Mr.. Davis and
fought savaeely for the privilege. Some would
get part way up the side of the veranda and be
yanked back into the crush below. There were
cries of God bless you, JEFF Davis" "Oh, may
God bless you," and Thousand similar exclama-
tions. Men pleaded with tears in their eyes,
crying, "For God sake let me touch mis- hand
only touch of his hand!"
The tattered and blood stained battle flag OF
the Third Georgia Regiment was passed over the
reach Mrs. Davis reached ont, tore of small
piece, pressed it passionately TO her lips, and,
sobbing like child thrust il into her bosom.
At this the crowd became like men demen ted,
and they wept and yelled and struggled in that
dreadful crush.
JEFF Davis clssped the flag and staff to his
heart, and bowling his white head, kissed its
folds. while the tears streaned from his eyes
His daughter erasped the corners of the flag
and kissed them. Take the staff in your
hands. We want to see you holding the flag"
the crowd shouted. The staff was then placed
In Mr.. Davis's hand by Senator Coiouitt, who
held to it and helped Mr. Davs's weak hands to
wave it back and forth. Senator Colouitt
climbed upon the rail ing. and tried for long
time to gain silence noueh to make a few
marks, but the crowd had gone crazy. and the
frantic struggle kept going on TO reach Mr.
baviss hand.
Miss Davis tried to hold him back, for he
weak and trembled. and the brawnv hands that
clasped his thin white ones werenot too gentle.
Mrs Davis would pull his hands back and throw
hers into those reached up, and the other
SIDE Miss Winnie and Mrs. HAYS were doing the
same. All of them. including Coqu!st and Cor
DON worked like beavers with both hands